Ireland’s record-breaking summer heat to make a return

Don’t put away the factor 50 just yet, the 2018 Irish heatwave may not be over.

It doesn’t take much for an Irish person to start complaining about the heat but really, the country has put up with some pretty unprecedented temperatures so far in 2018. We may have begun to believe the Irish heatwave was over with the rain that came last week but it seems that there might be a few barbeques and trips to the beach left in the Irish summer yet.

The Irish weather service Met Éireann is predicting that the heatwave in Ireland may return as early as this weekend, although temperatures may not rise to the historic levels we’ve seen throughout the last month.

While the rest of the week will continue to be cloudy and rainy, the sun will shine through just in time for the weekend with temperatures getting as high as 80℉ (27℃). This may not seem so severe to our friends in the rest of the world but trust us, by Irish standards, it’s high.

The current outlook for the weekend reads: “Generally warm and probably humid. Cloudy with patchy light rain on Saturday. Drier on Sunday with sunny spells in east and south.

“Top temperatures 18 to 23 degrees on Saturday. Warmer in the east and southeast on Sunday with temperatures into the mid-twenties in prolonged sunny breaks.”